Well well waddya know! Black or silver? I think a silver one would work well on the CL ;-)
But of course they're just tools and we wouldn't want any fondling of gear now would we ;-))) We're going to a concert next week where I know I can take some pics and I'm dying to try my Oly with the A*85/1.4 (which on MFT is an astonishing angle of view and aperture combo).... On 2/11/18, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: >So I'm seriously afflicted with Leica enjoyment: Enjoying the heck out >of my M-D and CL, and the R6.2 I picked up for a song recently. The >photos I'm getting from these cameras are just so satisfying. > >I tend to use a fast normal lens most of the time. And for the R and M I >have 50mm f/1.4 or 50mm f/2 choices ... more than one of them. So I was >planning on buying the APO-Summilux-TL 35mm f/1.4 ASPH to use with the >CL, the dedicated normal for the format. But. It's kind of a bulky lens. >And I could only use it on the CL since it's Leica L-mount and a fully >dedicated, electronic lens. And it ain't inexpensive, being around $2500 >or so. Hmm. > >I was thinking of all this and looking through some photos I've made in >the distant past. And some of my favorite photos made with the Pentax >APS-C bodies were made with the 43mm f/1.9 Limited. And I remember >looking for one of the special versions of this lens made for Leica >Thread Mount an eon ago and being a little put off by the price (over >$1100 at that time with the dedicated 43mm optical finder). > >So I looked for a LTM mount SMC-Pentax-L 43m f/1.9 Limited again and >several popped up. Prices are not much different than they were for the >complete set in EXC++ to near-MINT examples. But again. I found a couple >without the finder down in the $650-700 range. And one looked very clean >and pretty, with original caps. And I thought to myself, "That's a lot >less than $2500, and I can use it on both my CL and my M-D. And it's >that very nice 'long-normal' equivalent focal length around 65mm.." > >The 40mm optical finder is irrelevant for the CL (EVF body), and I've >got an LTM to M-mount adapter for 35mm which I feel fits the 43mm FoV >well enough for the M-D (and I can flip to the 50mm framelines easily >enough with the M-D's frameline preview selector for a comparison .. I >know exactly how the 43mm FoV relates to those two lenses). And for >close focusing on the CL, I have the Leica ELPRO close-up lenses that >work very very nicely. > >It's on the way. I'll be able to contribute a couple of NEW pictures to >the PDML annual this year! :-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ UK Shoot / Edit and || (O) | Live Broadcast News ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
